From: lhall@rfk.com (Larry Hall) Subject: Re: source code for 'ps' command ? 24 Oct 1996 09:10:23 -0700 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <2.2.32.19961024132143.002c883c.cygnus.gnu-win32@ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: lhall@ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Original-To: Geoffrey Noer , enrico@modulo.com (Enrico Brunetta) Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 01:18 PM 10/23/96 -0700, Geoffrey Noer wrote: >Enrico Brunetta taps on the keyboard: >> >> On the other hand, it seems to me that the 'ps' command is monitoring just >> subprocesses of bash. Is that true ? If so, is there any other command that >> will allow me to see every single process on my machine ? > >This isn't true. In fact, ps sees all processes that use the Cygwin32 API >(make use of the cygwin.dll), including sub-processes of ones started >from bash or command.com. > >There is probably a similar NT command but I don't know what it is off the >top of my head. > Any chance of getting ps to report on ALL processes which are running, regardless of whether they make use of cygwin.dll or not? I know the process viewer that comes with VC++ does this (as well as the ps from MKS) but it would be nice to have the gnuwin32 ps work this way too since that's what's expected and would allow for one stop shopping. Any plans? Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (617) 239-1053 8 Grove Street (617) 239-1655 - FAX Wellesley, MA 02181 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".